The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Norfolk region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Architect
Rank 29 17 19
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3 20 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 1.685% 7.905% 6.343%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.775% 8.368% 6.773%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 3
Average daily rate £440 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.22% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £375 £380
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £525 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
169 239 251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 94.94% 94.47% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 110 78
Average daily rate £275 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £233 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £455 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 17 28
Average hourly rate £23.50 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.02% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £14.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.25 £25.75 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Architect
East of England

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Norfolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Norfolk Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Architect across the Norfolk region.

Norfolk Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Norfolk region.

Norfolk Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Norwich -10 1 - -
King's Lynn - 1 £405 -
Architect
East of England

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk region that cited Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Architect in their job title.

1 3 (27.27%) CRM
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX
2 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
2 2 (18.18%) Tivoli
3 1 (9.091%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.091%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (9.091%) Metastorm
3 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) JMS
3 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
3 1 (9.091%) MS Visio
3 1 (9.091%) SOA
3 1 (9.091%) IBM
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.091%) SAN
3 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (9.091%) SAML
3 1 (9.091%) Internet
3 1 (9.091%) C#
3 1 (9.091%) HTML
3 1 (9.091%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) Perl
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) .NET

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk region that cited Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) HTML
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
1 1 (9.091%) J2EE
1 1 (9.091%) EJB
1 1 (9.091%) JDBC
1 1 (9.091%) JSP
1 1 (9.091%) Servlets
1 1 (9.091%) Struts
1 1 (9.091%) Web Services
1 1 (9.091%) XML
1 1 (9.091%) JMS
1 1 (9.091%) SAML
1 1 (9.091%) JNDI
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
1 1 (9.091%) Java EE
1 1 (9.091%) SPML
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) SAN
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
1 1 (9.091%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Ant
1 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (9.091%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
1 1 (9.091%) Web 2.0
1 1 (9.091%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) CRM
2 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) TDD
3 1 (9.091%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.091%) Competitor Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (9.091%) Usability Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Information Architecture
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) C#
1 1 (9.091%) Java
1 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.091%) Perl
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
1 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.091%) vSphere
1 1 (9.091%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli
2 1 (9.091%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (9.091%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) IBM
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.091%) Metastorm
1 1 (9.091%) VMware